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The concept introduces a company, which owns park of ride-hailing autonomous passenger taxi and delivery trucks and provides all transportation needs of selected part of the city.
About
The concept introduces a transportation company, which owns park of ride-hailing autonomous passenger taxi and delivery trucks. The company provides all transportation needs of a city or part of it, city center, for instance. Other vehicles are not allowed in this part of the city. Such a model makes possible to arrange non-stop one-way traffic resembling water vortices. To cross a road/street the vehicle enters the flow tangentially, changes lanes and exit from the opposite side. This maneuver is not complex provided that vehicles are capable "talking each other" (see for instance, https://www.auto-talks.com/company/about-us/ ). The movement of vehicles occurs at almost constant relatively low speed (say 60 km/h).
Key Benefits
• Short delivery time – due to non-stop movement without traffic jams; • Extremely low energy consumption – due to non-stop movement with relatively low speed without steep speed changes using regenerative braking; • Low cost of the vehicles - rather small battery needed, simple automatic driving equipment due to limited number of standard maneuvers; • No need in expensive multi-level junctions - actually any part of an existing city might be rearranged for the vortex traffic. The only infrastructure to be built is underground passages for pedestrians; • Safety.
Applications
City transportation